Alicia: Memoirs of A Survivor

ISBN-13: 9780857502612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 448 str.

Alicia Appleman-Jurman

Opis

Told simply and modestly, this is a remarkable tribute to courage and determination, and how one young woman survived the horrors of war-torn Europe.

Recenzje

Profoundly observed... amid all this ferocious bravery, small, sweet details emerge with a rending power. New York Times

O autorze

Alicia Appleman-Jurman (1930-2017) was a writer and lecturer. A Polish Jew, as a child she escaped the Nazis by being thrown through the window of a train taking her family to an extermination camp. Her parents and four brothers were all murdered. As a member of a resistance group, she helped to smuggle Jews out of Poland to Austria, and then on to what would become Israel. Her memoir, Alicia: Memoirs of a Survivor, is an account of her experiences of the Holocaust.